Developing Leadership Genius - Hardcover

Levicki, Cyril

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 007709848X ISBN 13: 9780077098483

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2001

Synopsis

'This is Cyril Levicki's best book to date. I firmly believe that all leaders should regularly analyse their own performance. This book is a significant contribution to this process.'

Bert Morris, Former Main Board Director & Deputy Group Chief Executive, NatWest Group and Chairman Lorien plc and Macro4 plc

' A comprehensive, practical and very readable analysis of the defining components of effective leadership. The author sharply illustrates the qualities so clearly needed in today's business leaders but which prove so elusive in so many.'

Andrew J. Palmer, Operations Director, DTS Logistics plc

'Cyril Levicki has written this book in an open and forthright style. It is easy to read with some highly effective exercises.'

Andrew Callaghan, Chief Executive, Sutton & Son (St Helens) Ltd.

'An extraordinary insight into the nature and nurture of leaders.'

Graham Durgan, Chief Executive, Barkers Norman Broadbent

Developing Leadership Genius offers an inspiring and sometimes controversial look at leadership. Based on his previous book "The Leadership Gene" Cyril Levicki continues to develop his ideas, encompassing the latest practices found in a range of situations from dot.com start-ups to well established multinational corporations.

The book describes everything you need to know about becoming a good leader. Self-assessment tests help you discover if you have natural leadership ability, and how to develop it so that you can get to the top faster and with fewer battle scars.

The author also offers advice on how to play the 'office politics' game and how to achieve work / life balance. Daring in its approach, it also suggests advice on how and when to choose your life partner, and how to maximise children's chances in the leadership lottery.

About this title

About the Author:

Cyril Levicki was raised and educated in London's East End. His first job as a labourer earned him the money to start up his own business. Over the next twelve years he ran businesses in retail, wholesale and manufacturing ranging from a market stall in Petticoat Lane to international import and export.At 35, he gained a degree in Economics and Politics at London University. He was awarded a scholarship to pursue his studies at the London Business School where he researched his Ph.D. into leadership decision making. He has taught at London Business School, Cranfield School of Management, and Queen Mary College, London University. In 1986 he was appointed Visiting Professor in Strategy at City University of New York and in September 2001 he joined a new management faculty at Reading University.In addition to teaching, the author runs a consultancy practice, which specialises in developing leaders and their organisation's strategies at boardroom level. He has worked with a wide range of international and national companies, including BT, British Gas, Jardine International Insurance, L'Orï¿al, Chloride Batteries, Smithkline Beecham, Exel Logistics, Telewest Communications, Reed International, Jones Lang Wooten, Lex Service, UCI Logistics and Media One International.

Synopsis:

"Developing Leadership Genius" offers an inspiring and sometimes controversial look at leadership.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 007709848X
• ISBN 13: 9780077098483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300